The Supreme Court will hear a case in February that could decide the future of the Biden presidency — and gut its ability to mitigate climate change in the face of congressional inaction.
The GOP and their donors are getting what they paid for (and then some).
It’s the next generation that will pay for their hubris and shortsightedness.
The Supreme Court will attempt a coup in an attempt to eliminate Biden’s ability to govern. If Biden has anywhere near the sense of the importance of climate and threat to democracy, he will instruct Federal agencies to ignore the courts.
If he really had any interest in a proportionate response on climate, he would instruct the US military to start leveling the world’s coal plants, starting in West Virginia.
Agreed, but neutering climate regulations is up there with gutting Roe v. Wade as a thing that will supercharge a majority of Americans to get out and vote for Dems.
Uuuuggghhh
5 members of that Court are guided by a nonexistent spiritual being. They play the Constitution game when they have to but these guys are going to rip this country apart because that’s what Jesus and the GOP want.
It’s over folks. An irrational SCOTUS is the end.
Don’t even need to level them. Buy them out. “Shareholder Value” doctrine would nearly require the companies to accept.
Billion here, billion there, not more coal.
These justices, with the POSSIBLE exception of Roberts, are simply BATSHIT INSANE, substituting crazy libertarian ideas and the alleged laws of a fucking non-existent divine being that only a MORON literally believes in for sanity, science, common sense and what works. How do we survive that short of simply ignoring their rulings?
I think it’s time to go all Andrew Jackson on their asses, only this time for the right reasons.
And HERE is why the real monied interests in the country want conservative justices. Time for the big pay off.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the U.S. Green Party’s greatest victory, the end to which they have worked so hard for twenty two years. Thanks, Ralph. Thanks, Jill. Big applause for Susan and Michael.
In related news, in the face of complete GOP obstruction, Senate Democrats can’t even get 2 holdouts from their own party to agree to protect voting rights to prevent the destruction of our very freedom.
Sigh
Jill Stein, a Russian dupe, ensured the Supreme Court will be right wing for decades.
I the early seventies we smug Canadians used to think that you guys were the ones doing all the damage to the Great Lakes. As time went by that changed dramatically. I remember reading stories about how much work the EPA ( I believe during Nixon’s reign ) had done to clean up the lakes and the reduction of toxic wastes pumped into them.
The Rump came along.
Excerpt:
Two months after President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Steel dumped a plume of cancer-causing metal into a Lake Michigan tributary 20 miles away from a Chicago drinking water intake.
The company reported another spill of hexavalent chromium six months later, around the same time public interest lawyers dug up recordsdocumenting scores of other clean water violations at the northwest Indiana steel mill.
Yet Trump appointees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declined to punish the company, rebuffing career staff who confirmed U.S. Steel had repeatedly, and illegally, released harmful pollution into the region’s chief source of drinking water.
“It makes me want to weep,” said Susan MiHalo, who has lived in nearby Ogden Dunes for more than 30 years and chairs the town’s environmental advisory board. “In the back of my mind I’m always worried they are dumping pollution into the lake and nobody is going to tell us about it.”
They are truly guided by the demands of big money. Their ‘spiritually guided’ decisions reflect the perceived necessity of pleasing the fascist base so that they’ll continue to support the fascists in what will pass for elections in the one party ‘democracy’ they intend to establish in the land of the free.
I’m feeling rather cynical this morning but there’s more than a grain of truth in that cynicism.
It takes a one vote majority from a lifetime tenure justice of the Supreme Court to undo, overrule or expunge any rule or regulation of any agency of the federal government, one Justice’s vote to erase any law passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President, one to undo any executive order of the President.
There is no filibuster or super-majority rule in the SCOTUS when it overrules actions of the other two united branches of our federal government.
Since McConnell changed the rules in 2017, one senator’s vote for a simple majority can confirm a justice of the Supreme Court for life.
The Republican Party’s (and Manchin/Sinema) embrace of the super-majority filibuster in the Senate has nothing to do with ensuring unity or good legislation. It’s a Jim Crow era relic, another right wing tool to undermine democracy, and obstruct government.
This is the cusp of the realization of Republicans’ decades-long project to hijack the mechanisms of governing, beyond the reach of voters’ ability to do anything about it. McConnell lifted the filibuster for his stacked and corrupt Supreme Court, which will gut Democratic administrations’ power to enact their policy agendas by insisting agencies can’t do anything without explicit Congressional authorization, and then McConnell will use the filibuster to prevent that very thing, and any other legislative redress by voters.
Here’s more information for people who didn’t want to keep their breakfast down anyway: https://www.vox.com/22276279/supreme-court-war-joe-biden-agency-regulation-administrative-neil-gorsuch-epa-nondelegation
Can’t get that past congress. Military takes orders without question.
Obviously this is not something that is politically possible and would lead to Biden’s defeat and Trump’s return, not to mention a global recession. But ultimately, if Biden had the military destroy coal infrastructure around the globe, he would be seen as the savior of mankind in 100 years or less.
And it’s the perfect way to protect the financial interests of the richest and most powerful, finish the project of transferring the nation’s wealth to them, and enshrine minority rule so that democracy is powerless to do anything about it.
But will it? Seriously. We have a huge chunk of population willing / eager / assertive in denying basic science to “own the libs” in the face of a deadly pandemic.
I see it just as likely that a decision that guts the EPA and all other agencies from making policy decision clearly in line with their mission will simply become part of the “Biden administration is a failure” narrative they are already pushing. Trumpistan will rejoice at again owning the libs while (too many) on the left will eagerly pile on, blaming Biden for not single-handedly doing enough to stop the climatic destruction of the planet. And the media will (sadly accurately) blame the Dems for for a failure to take the Supreme Court seriously as it marched decidedly to the right for 40 years.
